South African residents preparing to vote in Ficksburg, South Africa, on 18 May 2011. (Photo by Gallo Images/Foto24/Nicolene Olckers) Current political parties don't understand the problems South Africans are dealing with and therefore do not present workable, realistic and credible solutions, writes Herman Mashaba.When you consider the prospect of our country being turned around, you…
Herman Mashaba. Sharon Seretlo, Gallo Images The only way out of the mess it finds itself in, is for the ANC to grow up and face hard realities and to jettison its fantasy of state control, writes Herman Mashaba.The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic around the world has led to the death of close to…
Former DA Johannesburg mayor and founder of The People's Dialogue, Herman Mashaba, has called for electoral reform, in order for politicians to answer to their constituents instead of their respective political parties.Following his departure from the DA, Mashaba has criss-crossed the country in a campaign to engage communities through dialogue, ahead of the launch of…
4 min read "DAD, HOW CAN I build muscle?" For the past few years I’ve been thinking about building a home gym, and every time I came close, something stopped me. I didn’t have the space. I didn’t have the money. I was never really home—and when I was, disappearing into another part of the
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6 min read IF YOUR SOCIAL media feeds are filled with dumbbell curls and hot takes about training tempo, the same algorithm that might have served you this article has also likely been populated with clips of fitfluencers—like this one and this one—sucking their belly in and standing with their stomach flat like a pancake.